A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
I have a lot of interest in modern Japanese entertainment, from anime to the music, both recent and traditional, I love the art, culture, the natural landscape, flora and architecture, however; I have noticed a couple of points which start to remind me how alone and lonely we all truly are in this world. Two such elements, well, technically more than two, but I’ll focus on these two for the time being, one of them I’ll mention in a separate blog post, but for now, the one I’ll be focusing on is the concept of hiring a friend, girlfriend, or any particular social status you’re looking for. Yes, you heard me correctly, I said, HIRING, as in paying money for social connections. I’m not making it up, it’s true, real, and I really wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t just taking place in Japan either; I bet it’s over here in Britain in its own form too. In fact, I know, from personal experience, how greedy dating websites have been, so I KNOW an organisation like this is very much a genuine issue for all of us, in one way or another…
‘How to Hire Fake Friends and Family,’
title quoted from the above article on The Atlantic.
When we all get to the point in our evolution as human beings, the moment we all feel we need to pay money in order to make social connections proves to me just how alienated we all are as people. If you get to such a stage that no one can trust another human soul, and you have to money to ‘look’ as if you are not alone, then it proves my point absolutely. If that doesn’t prove we’re all lonely in this world, I don’t know what does!
So, since I’m a straight single man living in the United Kingdom feeling lonely, alone, trapped, alienated, isolated, I should ‘hire’ a girlfriend because I’m not going to be able to find the real out there, because you have to PAY for it, do you? What is this world coming, or indeed, already has, come to, when organisations like these are thriving? We shouldn’t have to have organisations like this, but the fact that they exist, should show and prove to the world, just how shameful we as human beings have lost the basic and simple concept of being able to relate to each other, to get to know one another, to know we can trust in one another. I don’t know whether to feel boiling up with fury or downtrodden in the lowest form of depression by the knowledge of the existence of organisations like this. To be honest, I feel it’s a mixture of both. I mean, what do YOU truly think of organisations like this? I’d love to hear your opinions… I wish more people, especially around my age of 28, can understand what organisations like these are proving what this world is being driven to, what we as human beings are being denied us, the fact that we feel we need to pay in order to socialise!
If we all started out as cave men and women, did we need to pay in order to talk to each other? Did we need to pay to prove to those of the opposite sex who we are and that we are trustworthy, genuine, care and would be interested to get to know them further? What kind of a world are we coming to here?
Lost in an Alien World 